D Danić, D Prgomet, D Milicić, D Leović, D Puntarić
During the 1991-1992 war in Croatia, 7,043 wounded persons were treated at Dr Josip Bencević General Hospital in Slavonski Brod. Among them, 728 (580 soldiers and 148 civilians) had war injuries to the head and neck and were admitted to the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Cervicofacial Surgery. There were 541 (74.3%) patients with head injuries, 117 (16.0%) with neck injuries, and 70 (9.6%) with a combination of head and neck injuries. The wounds were mostly inflicted by shell and bomb fragments (542 wounds, or 74...
February 1998: Military Medicine